The "majority view" in #China sees some of #Trump's moves as an "own goal"
Da asserts that most Chinese people he talks w/viewed #USAID, the #ForeignAid agency, as one of America's strengths, improving its image & influence in the developing world. Virtually eliminating the agency was "in #China's interest."
Da said he learned some of his English in college while listening to #VOA broadcasts & also learned news that wasn't reported in the Chinese media.
Da acknowledges that in recent years, VOA was less important as the internet spread. But he says another agency mattered more: the U.S. Agency for International Development (#USAID).
In an email to #USAID staff, Jeremy Lewin, a #DOGE ofcl who took over running the day-to-day ops at USAID from Pete Marocco on March 20, said the RIFs would go into effect either on July 1 or Sept 2.
This comes as the #Trump admin wraps up the dismantling of the 64-year-old USAID, having terminated some 5,200 contracts, & moves forward with its plan to shift the remaining portion of its work to the #State Dept.
The #Trump admin is terminating nearly all of the remaining 900 employees of the #USAID, in a final reduction-in-force #RIF.
Virtually no one will be spared, not even political appointees, acc/to 2 snr USAID ofcls….
Staff were ordered to leave "the front office" by 1PM on Fri for reasons that are not clear, the ofcls said. But they may still be asked to continue working for a few months.
#Musk #DOGE #Aid #geopolitics #SoftPower
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/03/28/g-s1-56968/usaid-terminates-nearly-all-its-remaining-employees
“Yet”?
“ #Trump administration moves to formally abolish #USAID, an action Congress has not yet authorized” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/28/trump-presidency-news/
Myanmar: Urgently facilitate access to #humanitarianaid for earthquake survivors. ‘Responding to reports of widescale damage from a 7.7-magnitude #earthquake reported in…#Myanmar, Amnesty International’s Myanmar Researcher Joe Freeman said: “This earthquake could not come at a worse time for Myanmar... At the same time, the impacts of #USaid cuts…are…starting to bite.’
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/03/myanmar-urgently-facilitate-access-to-humanitarian-aid-for-earthquake-survivors/
Tell me this is not all at the direction of #putin. The #Trump administration has terminated more than 5,300 #grants and #contracts managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development #USAID worth more than $27 billion, according to a document obtained by POLITICO. https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000195-d4ba-dc7d-add5-f6fe93e40000 #foreign #aid #statedepartment #budget #vaccines #food #healthcare #HIV #AIDS
The #TrumpMusk regime is letting children DIE bc #DOGE defunded the 64-yr-old #USAID. This precious child is DEAD, & others will suffer & die.
"It was indeed difficult to obtain photos of the orphans who had died bc of the collapse of USAID: Bc they were dead, I couldn't photograph them, & impoverished orphans don't leave photo archives. But this is Evan Anzoo, from a social worker who helped him before he died
when USAID stopped providing his 12-cents-a-day med."
-N Kristof
"#Trump admin to end funding for vaccinating children in poor countries"
"This is so fucking cruel. Withholding $300M. That's 0.004% of the $6.8T budget last year. They're willing to let 8 million kidsdie over the next 5 years to save 0.004% of the US budget. How much are we spending on rooms at Mar-a-Lago when he's golfing?"
-Dr R Davidson
Amplify this preventable "genocidal," catastrophe. This can be reversed.
#USAID #DOGE #Musk #Republicans #Resist #Firings #USPol
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5216013-trump-administration-gavi-vaccine-fund-elon-musk-doge/
6.3 million deaths expected to occur due to USAID cuts.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on the 10th March that Washington would slash 83% of its USAID-funded international aid projects. The decision is already having serious repercussions. In southern Mexico, the Swiss NGO, Doctors of the World, has warned it may soon be forced to cease operations, leaving thousands of migrants without critical medical care. FRANCE 24's team in #Mexico reports.
#immigration #USAID
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20250326-usaid-cuts-deal-heavy-blow-to-health-programs-for-migrants-in-mexico
@georgetakei the biggest Ponzi scheme in the USA was #usaid and the second biggest is the funding of #israel. Lining corporate farming and military suppliers. With #trump and #musk it is like watching the blind leading the blind.
When he calls social security scheme a ‘ponzi scheme’ he is ignoring that giving to these people funnels money to small local businesses as apposed to the one he is in which is the government outsources federal services to people like him.
Trump administration to cut vaccine aid to developing countries https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/trump-vaccine-aid-funding #Trumpadministration #USforeignpolicy #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #Worldnews #USnews #USAid
SCOOP: Court filings show that from the earliest days of the second Trump administration, Elon #Musk's DOGE had a plan to infiltrate US Treasury payment systems—and turn them against #USAID.
| WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-plan-treasury-usaid/
The #Trump admin intends to terminate the #UnitedStates’ financial support for #Gavi, the org that has helped purchase critical #vaccines for #children in developing countries, saving millions of lives over the past quarter century, & to significantly scale back support for efforts to combat #malaria, one of the biggest killers globally.
#US to End #Vaccine Funding for Poor Countries
A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by NYT lists the #Trump admin’s plans for thousands of #ForeignAid programs.
#USpol #geopolitics #GAVI #USAID #SoftPower #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/health/usaid-cuts-gavi-bird-flu.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=0B1E1CC6-D21C-41FD-BBF7-6EF340A550AA
A federal appeals court temporarily halted a lower court's order that #USAID reopen its HQs.
The 4th Circuit issued an administrative stay of US District Judge Theodore Chuang's order until Thursday, an indication it will decide in the next 48hrs on the #Trump admin's request for a stay while a full appeal is heard.
The Baltimore judge found last week that the efforts of #ElonMusk & #DOGE to largely dismantle USAID “likely violated the United States #Constitution in multiple ways."
U.S. President Donald Trump and his advisers have ushered the United States into a new era of post-truth politics, where facts are contested and fictions used to pursue policy goals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/25/world/politics/second-term-trump-machinery-misinformation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #republicans #donaldtrump #elonmusk #jdvance #canada #china #mexico #trade #usaid
Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total freeze in US foreign aid funding and programming.
